In Memoriam: Professor Kenneth R. Laker

Dear CAS Society Member,

It is with a heavy heart that we share that former IEEE President, Kenneth R. Laker, passed away on 2 August 2023. Professor Ken Laker was an IEEE Life Fellow and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania for over 30 years. Professor Ken Laker made a significant and long-lasting impact on IEEE. In addition to his tenure as IEEE President, which he chronicled in a 2011 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine article, he was a longtime member of the Solid-State Circuits Society and the Circuits and Systems Society, serving as CASS president in 1983. He also served IEEE as a Section Chair, Division Director, and Vice President of Educational Activities. 

Professor Ken Laker was an equally successful researcher and engineer with seminal contributions in the areas of multi-loop feedback active-RC filters, parasitic-insensitive active-SC filters, and SAW filters.

More information about Professor Ken Laker's personal and professional achievements can be found on the Engineering and Technology History Wiki, and on this memorial page.

Visitation will take place at the Fitzgerald Sommer Funeral Home, 17 S.  Delaware Ave., Yardley, PA, On Thursday 10 August from 3-7 p.m. EDT. A mass will be held at St.Ignatius Loyola Church, 980 Park Avenue at 84th Street, on Friday 11 August at 11 a.m. EDT. Interment will be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Stevens Ave., Hawthorne, NY, on Friday 11 August at 1 p.m. EDT.